Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Show Within a Show Artistic License – Military Vomit Indiscretion Shot Award-Bait Song Better to Die than Be Killed Random Events Plot Only in It for the Money Visual Pun Leaning on the Fourth Wall Improbable Aiming Skills Chekhov's Skill Deconstruction Dirty Cop Nice Guy Make It Look Like an Accident Redemption Equals Death Bloodless Carnage Adult Fear Blood Knight The Quiet One Eyepatch of Power Retcon Sanity Slippage Mr. Exposition Guns Akimbo Rasputinian Death Gratuitous English Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Taking the Bullet Military and Warfare Films Villain with Good Publicity Bond Villain Stupidity Black Comedy Rape Disney Death Scary Black Man Love at First Sight Everyone Has Standards Parental Substitute Belligerent Sexual Tension Retired Badass Mythology Gag Depraved Bisexual Police Brutality Parental Neglect Bad Boss Improvised Weapon Cat Fight All Girls Want Bad Boys Death Glare Shirtless Scene Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Arch-Enemy Poor Communication Kills He Knows Too Much Gender Flip Butt-Monkey Pimped-Out Dress Action Genre Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Undying Loyalty Face–Heel Turn The Power of Love As Himself Adults Are Useless German Films Artistic License – History Take That! Accidental Murder Sci-Fi Horror Death Seeker Red Right Hand As You Know Faux Affably Evil Frame-Up Dissonant Serenity Not So Different The Sociopath Left the Background Music On La Résistance Gold Digger Ironic Echo Destination Defenestration Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Television Movie Index Vitriolic Best Buds Word of God Unusual Euphemism Mama Bear Eureka Moment Stock Footage An Arm and a Leg One-Man Army Coming-of-Age Story Christmas Movies Index Interrupted Suicide Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Bait-and-Switch Stealth Pun Plucky Comic Relief The Lancer Stuff Blowing Up The Bad Guy Wins Male Gaze Made of Iron Jitter Cam Bare Your Midriff The Load Beauty Is Never Tarnished Wretched Hive Shipper on Deck And the Adventure Continues Mercy Kill Market-Based Title May–December Romance Kill It with Fire It's All About Me Demoted to Extra Novelization Never My Fault Beware the Nice Ones Attempted Rape A Father to His Men Femme Fatale No-Sell Works Set in World War II Dark and Troubled Past The Reveal Scare Chord Funny Background Event Enemy Mine Brother–Sister Incest Bolivian Army Ending Aluminum Christmas Trees Refuge in Audacity Expy Black Best Friend Blackmail Closed Circle Evil vs. Evil Spell My Name with an "S" Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Car Fu Red Shirt Papa Wolf Babies Ever After Central Theme Driven to Suicide Artistic License – Gun Safety Mind Screw Nothing Is Scarier Fanservice Spiritual Successor Berserk Button Mexican Standoff Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Card-Carrying Villain Index of Film Westerns Flipping the Bird Bury Your Gays Big Brother Instinct Instant Death Bullet Black Dude Dies First Reckless Gun Usage Wham Shot Hypocrite Henpecked Husband Pyrrhic Victory Unresolved Sexual Tension Captain Ersatz Evil Counterpart My God, What Have I Done? Five-Man Band Outrun the Fireball Ghost Fiction Insult Backfire The Ditz Up to Eleven The '50s Drowning My Sorrows Chase Scene One-Word Title Betty and Veronica Vacation Films Improbable Weapon User Wrong Genre Savvy Took a Level in Jerkass Skewed Priorities Children Are Innocent Corrupt Corporate Executive Kick the Dog Laughing Mad Logo Joke Scenery Porn Shell-Shocked Veteran Bland-Name Product What the Hell, Hero? Villainous Breakdown Hell Is That Noise Same Language Dub Protagonist Title Corpsing Chekhov's Gunman Only Sane Man Bloody Hilarious The Great Depression Soundtrack Dissonance Here We Go Again! Not So Stoic The Lost Lenore Sacrificial Lion You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Pragmatic Villainy Good Is Not Nice Pay Evil unto Evil Cruel and Unusual Death Alliterative Name Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Death by Sex Author Avatar Twist Ending Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Hope Spot Dark Action Girl Anguished Declaration of Love Never Found the Body Tagline Decoy Protagonist Rape as Drama Re-Cut Credits Gag The '90s Serious Business Silent Movie Fingore "The Reason You Suck" Speech Freeze-Frame Bonus Wham Line Time Skip Cowboy Cop Soft Glass Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bullying a Dragon Diabolus ex Machina Department of Redundancy Department Black and Gray Morality Silence Is Golden Kubrick Stare Take a Third Option Auto Erotica Abhorrent Admirer A.I. Is a Crapshoot Deliberate Values Dissonance Death of a Child Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Un-Reveal Noodle Incident Adapted Out Rich Bitch Punctuated! For! Emphasis! I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Major Injury Underreaction Get Out! Earn Your Happy Ending Villain Opening Scene Does This Remind You of Anything? Dies Wide Open Fire-Forged Friends Demonic Possession Daddy's Girl Defrosting Ice Queen Getting Crap Past the Radar Would Hit a Girl Running Gag Those Two Guys Face Death with Dignity Horror Films Does Not Like Shoes Music Stories Naïve Newcomer Distracted by the Sexy Break the Haughty Taking You with Me Freudian Excuse Truth in Television Those Two Bad Guys As the Good Book Says... Leitmotif Villain Protagonist Aside Glance Anachronic Order The Hero Really Gets Around Product Placement All Men Are Perverts Rule of Symbolism Unreliable Narrator Darkest Hour Deliberately Monochrome Cool Car Heterosexual Life-Partners Suspiciously Specific Denial Double-Meaning Title Fantastic Racism Big Bad Film Noir Creative Closing Credits Slap-Slap-Kiss All There in the Script This Is Gonna Suck Action Survivor Redshirt Army Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Badass Longcoat Artistic License – Biology The Ace In the Back Laser-Guided Karma Anti-Villain Police are Useless Pet the Dog The '80s Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rule of Cool Humiliation Conga Sports Stories Greater-Scope Villain Dull Surprise Curse Cut Short Crapsack World Trailers Always Spoil The Brute Never Trust a Trailer Sir Swears-a-Lot Small Name, Big Ego Determinator aka: The Determinator Framing Device Monumental Damage Insane Troll Logic Irony Psychopathic Manchild Mystery and Detective Films Failed a Spot Check Flashback Riddle for the Ages Stepford Smiler Advertised Extra Public Domain Feature Films Totally Radical Meaningful Echo Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Hero Dies Dying Moment of Awesome Rule of Three Those Wacky Nazis Stealth Hi/Bye My Greatest Failure Affably Evil Paper-Thin Disguise Dropped a Bridge on Him Exactly What It Says on the Tin Did Not Get the Girl N-Word Privileges Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Arc Words The Alcoholic Evil Is Hammy Title Drop Eldritch Abomination Evil Plan Foreshadowing Alpha Bitch Not Quite Dead Wicked Cultured Honor Before Reason Fantasy Films Danny Peary Cult Movies List Alas, Poor Villain Conspicuous CG Big Fancy House Genre Savvy Sequel Escalation folderlabel Fatal Family Photo "Shaggy Dog" Story NO INDOOR VOICE Too Dumb to Live Woman Scorned The Mole Deal with the Devil And I Must Scream Missing Mom Blood from the Mouth Obstructive Bureaucrat In Name Only Race Against the Clock The Vamp A God Am I Punch-Clock Villain Morality Pet I Have Your Wife Hypocritical Humor Brick Joke Bavarian Fire Drill Hate Sink Foil Manipulative Bastard Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Film Noir Index Based on a True Story Film Series Jerkass Has a Point Awesome, but Impractical Funny Foreigner Sadistic Choice Damsel in Distress Epic Movie Overly Long Gag Sexy Discretion Shot The '60s Ambiguous Ending Crucified Hero Shot Stalker with a Crush Badass Grandpa Big Bad Duumvirate Kill 'em All Adaptational Badass Ungrateful Bastard Adaptation Dye-Job Ass Shove Tap on the Head Abusive Parents Asshole Victim Romantic False Lead Zombie Stories Kids Are Cruel Older Than They Look Lock and Load Montage MacGuffin Meaningful Background Event Camp Gay Anyone Can Die Dark Reprise Well-Intentioned Extremist Be Careful What You Wish For Killed Mid-Sentence The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Lampshade Hanging Shower Scene Faking the Dead Bound and Gagged For Want of a Nail Animated Credits Opening Canon Foreigner Bottomless Magazines Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bittersweet Ending Animal Motifs Evil Laugh Bar Brawl Worthy Opponent Daylight Horror No Celebrities Were Harmed Precision F-Strike Broken Bird Imagine Spot Translation Convention Cluster F-Bomb Hero Antagonist Very Loosely Based on a True Story Red Herring Drives Like Crazy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Psychological Thriller I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Ghost Took a Level in Badass Super Strength Body Horror Air-Vent Passageway Due to the Dead Self-Deprecation For the Evulz Suspiciously Similar Substitute Parental Abandonment Eagleland Non-Indicative Name Crazy Jealous Guy Drill Sergeant Nasty An Axe to Grind Captain Obvious Meet Cute Recycled IN SPACE! Action Prologue Easily Forgiven Heroes Want Redheads Put on a Bus You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Crazy-Prepared Adaptation Expansion Serial Killer The Chessmaster Cat Scare Spiteful Spit Heel–Face Turn Early-Bird Cameo Handicapped Badass Broken Aesop Dogged Nice Guy Disguised in Drag Apocalypse How No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Smurfette Principle Cloudcuckoolander Heel Realization Big "NO!" Motor Mouth Bi the Way Badass Normal Artistic License – Law Lighter and Softer Bloodier and Gorier Evil Brit The Stoner Heroic BSoD Big-Bad Ensemble timeperiod Curb-Stomp Battle Training Montage Mood Whiplash Action Girl Not What It Looks Like Rewatch Bonus Big Damn Heroes Science Fiction Films The Cameo It Can Think The Alleged Car Rated M for Manly Loads and Loads of Characters Famous Last Words Combat Pragmatist Ripped from the Headlines Intrepid Reporter Hollywood Law Cain and Abel Chewing the Scenery Love Triangle Beta Couple Expository Hairstyle Change Character Development Cool Shades B-Movie Only Known by Their Nickname Authority Equals Asskicking Neck Lift Amoral Attorney Ax-Crazy Evil Sounds Deep Actor Allusion As Long as It Sounds Foreign Superhero Four-Temperament Ensemble Room Full of Crazy Age Lift Breaking the Fourth Wall Blatant Lies Spanner in the Works Dressing as the Enemy Hidden Depths Fate Worse than Death Idiot Ball Men Are the Expendable Gender Evil Is Petty Horror Comedy Toplessness from the Back Mundane Made Awesome Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Arranged Marriage Continuity Nod Informed Ability Slasher Movie Ship Tease War Is Hell Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Off with His Head! Casting Gag Not So Above It All Dual Wielding Cool Old Guy I'm a Humanitarian Chekhov's Gun Pretty Little Headshots Reality Has No Subtitles Karmic Death Friend to All Children Would Hurt a Child Country Matters Bring My Brown Pants Not Using the "Z" Word Contrived Coincidence Fainting Affectionate Parody Sequel Hook Reasonable Authority Figure Line-of-Sight Name Brainless Beauty Dramedy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Ominous Latin Chanting Hero of Another Story Unusually Uninteresting Sight Offscreen Teleportation Punny Name Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Jump Scare Historical-Domain Character Australian Movies Ambiguously Gay The Bully Homage Composite Character All for Nothing Madness Mantra Calling the Old Man Out Spared by the Adaptation After the End You Killed My Father Hair-Trigger Temper BFG I Need a Freaking Drink Knight Templar Dramatic Irony Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dumb Blonde The Dog Bites Back Determinator Your Cheating Heart Bilingual Bonus Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fake Shemp Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Mugging the Monster More Dakka Call-Forward Badass Boast Vampire Fiction A Date with Rosie Palms "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Tranquil Fury Fish out of Water Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Even Evil Has Standards Roaring Rampage of Revenge Death by Adaptation Cool Old Lady Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Villain Ball Slasher Smile Final Girl Actually Pretty Funny The '70s Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Disney Villain Death Epic Fail Overprotective Dad Groin Attack In Medias Res Manchild Insistent Terminology Chiaroscuro Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Married to the Job True Companions Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The X of Y Bond One-Liner Immune to Bullets Drugs Are Bad Malevolent Masked Men Let's Get Dangerous! Badass Bookworm Tempting Fate Dutch Angle The Musical Smug Snake Gory Discretion Shot Meaningful Name Celebrity Paradox Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Disproportionate Retribution Once More, with Clarity! Suddenly SHOUTING! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Together in Death Manic Pixie Dream Girl And Starring Only One Name Whole Plot Reference Antagonist Title Early Installment Weirdness Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Politically Incorrect Villain Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Historical Hero Upgrade The Film of the Book Nice Hat Smoking Is Cool Adaptation Name Change Fatal Flaw Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Chick Foregone Conclusion Properly Paranoid Rousing Speech Historical In-Joke Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Oner Leave the Camera Running Our Vampires Are Different The Place Historical Villain Upgrade Video Credits The Faceless Genre Throwback Gorn Book-Ends Reality Ensues She's Got Legs Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Exact Words Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fiery Redhead Obviously Evil The Stoic Shown Their Work Obfuscating Stupidity Pragmatic Adaptation Amusing Injuries Armor-Piercing Question The Mafia Ms. Fanservice Almost Kiss Sealed Evil in a Can You Have Failed Me It's Personal Slashed Throat Implacable Man Bad "Bad Acting" All Just a Dream Cassandra Truth Black Comedy Made of Explodium What Happened to the Mouse? Hoist by His Own Petard A Minor Kidroduction Anachronism Stew Broken Pedestal Call-Back Your Head A-Splode Male Frontal Nudity Eiffel Tower Effect Italian Films Neck Snap Fun with Acronyms Match Cut How We Got Here Scenery Gorn From Nobody to Nightmare Eye Scream Say My Name Thriller Mooks Our Zombies Are Different Catch-Phrase Star-Crossed Lovers Russian Films Disappeared Dad Narrator Plot Hole Only a Flesh Wound Documentary Ambiguous Disorder Grievous Bottley Harm The Stinger Needs Wiki Magic Love From Bad to Worse Adorkable The Smart Guy Gainax Ending No Ending Boom, Headshot! Sinister Minister Hong Kong Films Fat Bastard An Aesop There Is No Kill Like Overkill Canadian Movies Posthumous Character Martial Arts Movie Vomit Discretion Shot Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Didn't Think This Through Mr. Fanservice Guile Hero Bitch in Sheep's Clothing No Name Given Shout-Out Adaptation Distillation Anti-Hero Dirty Coward Mighty Whitey Loophole Abuse Every Car Is a Pinto Shoot the Shaggy Dog Camera Abuse Green-Eyed Monster Batman Gambit Establishing Character Moment Mistaken for Gay Adaptational Heroism No Antagonist Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 20 Minutes into the Future Oh, Crap! Dwindling Party Real Life Revenge Parental Incest Genre Shift French Films Becoming the Mask Knife Nut One Steve Limit Psycho for Hire Adaptational Attractiveness Happily Married Domestic Abuse Last-Name Basis Creepy Child Man on Fire Adaptational Villainy Gone Horribly Right Pre-Mortem One-Liner Reality Is Unrealistic Large Ham Dirty Old Man Pretty in Mink Red Eyes, Take Warning '80s Hair Break the Cutie Naked People Are Funny O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Dragon Jerk with a Heart of Gold Fan Disservice Beard of Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Bald of Evil Big Applesauce Throwing Your Sword Always Works Double Entendre Bowdlerise Yandere Hollywood Darkness Light Is Not Good Brutal Honesty Deus ex Machina Agony of the Feet "Well Done, Son!" Guy He Who Fights Monsters Woman in White The Casanova Big Eater Covers Always Lie Back from the Dead Extreme Doormat It Will Never Catch On Death by Irony Maybe Ever After Downer Ending Creator Cameo Fourth Date Marriage Romantic Comedy Retirony Developing Doomed Characters Japanese Films Biopic The Atoner Heroic Sacrifice The Cavalry I Did What I Had to Do What You Are in the Dark Ascended Extra Kick the Son of a Bitch Deadpan Snarker Manly Tears Jerk Jock The Voiceless World of Ham Villain Song The Big Guy Playing Gertrude Fanservice Extra Intergenerational Friendship Red Oni, Blue Oni Costume Porn "Awesome McCool" Name Have a Gay Old Time Karma Houdini Sassy Black Woman Jerkass Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Real Life Writes the Plot Badass in a Nice Suit No OSHA Compliance Off-into-the-Distance Ending Author Appeal Moment Killer Humans Are Bastards Straight Gay British Films Mad Scientist The End... Or Is It? Empathic Environment She Cleans Up Nicely The Starscream Comically Missing the Point Grey and Gray Morality Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Dreaded Extremely Short Timespan Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Despair Event Horizon Stylistic Suck Defiant to the End Race Lift Important Haircut Facial Horror Sole Survivor My Beloved Smother Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Catapult Nightmare Dark Is Not Evil Artistic License – Geography Animal Title Index Hooker with a Heart of Gold Accidental Misnaming Annoying Younger Sibling Bunny-Ears Lawyer Shut Up, Hannibal! Cold-Blooded Torture Darker and Edgier Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – Physics Setting Update Evil-Detecting Dog Cool Guns Victoria's Secret Compartment No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dramatic Gun Cock Token Minority Rule of Funny Storming the Castle All There in the Manual Gilligan Cut The Remake